From G. B. Thornbery 27 March 1873
Summary
Has read several of CD’s books; is curious about his remarks on "movements which are no longer useful but still inherited". Asks CD’s opinion on why people still swing arms with opposite leg in walking.
Author: | Gregory Beddome Thornbery |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 160: 316 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8827 |
From N. D. Doedes 27 March 1873
Summary
Thanks CD for photograph – sends one in return,
questions CD on his religious views.
Author: | Nicolaas Dirk Doedes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 201 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8828 |
From A. G. Butler 27 March 1873
Summary
On ocelli and relation to sexual selection;
instance of rejection of male by female butterfly.
Author: | Arthur Gardiner Butler |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 27 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 89: 96–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8829 |
From T. W. Higginson 30 March 1873
Summary
Pleased CD enjoyed his book [Outdoor papers (1871)].
Rejoices at CD’s kindly feelings toward the coloured race.
The Index is in financial trouble due to F. E. Abbot’s unworldliness.
Agassiz is setting up a summer school for natural history off the Massachusetts coast. His pupils develop more liberal scientific opinions than Agassiz’s.
Encloses some notes on expression.
Author: | Thomas Wentworth Higginson |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 30 Mar 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 166: 198 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8830 |
From Gerard Krefft [c. 1 November 1873?]
Summary
Describes the behaviour of a pet donkey and pig.
Author: | Johann Louis Gerard (Gerard) Krefft |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [c. 1 Nov 1873?] |
Classmark: | DAR 169: 115 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8834 |
From William Main 2 April 1873
Summary
Having now read Expression, WM repeats his criticism of "antithesis". Explains his theory of up-and-down-tending lines.
Author: | William Main |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 2 Apr 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 171: 28 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8836 |
From N. D. Doedes 4 April 1873
Summary
Debates the existence of God.
Author: | Nicolaas Dirk Doedes |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 4 Apr 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 202 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8841 |
From Adolph Reuter 6 April 1873
Summary
Sends photograph of a diseased roebuck shot by Prince Frederick Charles of Prussia.
Author: | Adolf Reuter |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 6 Apr 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 176: 128 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8844 |
From J. D. Hooker [7 April 1873]
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | [7 Apr 1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 153–4 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8847 |
From Charles Voysey 7 April 1873
Summary
Sends his 6th volume.
Author: | Charles Voysey |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 7 Apr 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 180: 17 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8848 |
From John Tyndall 8 April [1873]
Summary
William Spottiswoode was not at home, but JT sought out Herbert Spencer. Spencer will come with JT to see CD [about the Huxley fund].
Author: | John Tyndall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 8 Apr [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: C10 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8849 |
From John Tyndall 9 April [1873]
Summary
Is convinced that the "brotherly spirit of the transaction" will cause Huxley not to raise objections.
Author: | John Tyndall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 9 Apr [1873] |
Classmark: | DAR 106: C11 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8852 |
From John Tyndall 10 April 1873
Author: | John Tyndall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 10 Apr 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: C12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8855 |
From J. D. Hooker 11 April 1873
Summary
George Henslow is worse. All plans to go abroad have been given up. James Paget’s diagnoses enclosed.
Author: | Joseph Dalton Hooker |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 11 Apr 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 103: 151–2 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8857 |
From Samuel Butler 15 April 1873
Summary
Thanks CD for his kind letter about The fair haven [1873]. Encouraged by its reception. All he wants is to compel "an attitude of fixed attention in the place of cowardly shrinking from examination". Says he will try "a novel pure and simple with little ""purpose"" next".
Author: | Samuel Butler |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 15 Apr 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: A11–12 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8859 |
From John Tyndall 16 April 1873
Summary
It is Huxley’s "duty to do what we wish him to do – his duty to his wife and children, his duty to us and to the world". Shares CD’s wish that Mrs [Henry] L[yell?] had not subscribed – it suggests the idea of an effort.
Author: | John Tyndall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Apr 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: C13–14 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8860 |
From James Crichton-Browne 16 April 1873
Summary
Sends 15 studies in expression, acted by his wife.
Describes David Ferrier’s experiments on electrical brain stimulation of animals; these show direct relation between convolutions of the brain and groups of muscles [West Riding Asylum Med. Rep. (July 1873)].
Author: | James Crichton-Browne |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 16 Apr 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 161: 319 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8861 |
From Federico Delpino 20 April 1873
Summary
Left the Garibaldi at Rio de Janeiro.
Phylogeny of aphids.
Author: | Federico Delpino |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 20 Apr 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 162: 151 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8868 |
From John Tyndall 21 April 1873
Summary
[Sir Joseph?] Whitworth’s contribution brings total to over £2000. Wishes CD could be persuaded to come to lunch with Huxley and Emerson.
Author: | John Tyndall |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 21 Apr 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 106: C15 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8870 |
From W. M. Canby 22 April 1873
Summary
Sends leaves of Dionaea with insect prey in them. Size of insects captured may be affected by leaves not being fully grown.
Author: | William Marriott Canby |
Addressee: | Charles Robert Darwin |
Date: | 22 Apr 1873 |
Classmark: | DAR 58.1: 26–7 |
Letter no: | DCP-LETT-8871 |
Hooker, J. D. | (26) |
Darwin, Francis | (13) |
Darwin, G. H. | (7) |
Krefft, Gerard | (7) |
Moggridge, J. T. | (7) |
Darwin, C. R. | (286) |
Hooker, J. D. | (26) |
Darwin, Francis | (13) |
Darwin, G. H. | (7) |
Krefft, Gerard | (7) |